The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 9, 1922, Page 1

Tonight and gentle wi doesn’t think it is loaded, Howdy, folks! The goof who | used to rock the boat hay been | ed by the gink who ' Seven Seattle fuel merchants are | charged with giving tholr patrons oversized 10a: wood We next expect to hear eral Seattle bo: arrested for giving th perial quarts instead that sev eggers have been! r patrons tm: | fifths.” of : is mostly home | Honeymoonshine brewed. Burbank has invented 17 ditterent | kinds of prunes. Heaven must pro tect the woikin’ soll! see oe | TH OFFICE | , SEZ: | dust becur you are a raving | | beauty, don't rave. will the sniffies | . If winter comes ae be far behind? | . . io | A United States dollar is now) worth only 99 Canadian cents in Montreal. We don't care a hoot) what it's worth in Canada, but we worth more than 60 cents in Seattle. eee ike @ severe winter. The} on our collars and cufts | 3 Memoirs of the war. he tells us the name of for winning the war. eee This boas of mine I gladly pratsc, Of him [ warmly speak— He's smart, that lad; I got a ratse Of salary last week! eee NOTICE This is Better Homes week. Smash the phonograph! eee ae 4 Golf is a game where a man chases small spheroid around a pasture; baseball, where 18, men chase: It. . Lfl Gee Gee says the modern man) thinks he is roughing it if he walks | in the park wearing @ soft shirt with be thet the ginko won't have to carry | | purves. pF | ee An English scientist says, “If you could come back to earth 2,000 years from now the chances are you would find everyone living underground.” | Wg see nothing alarming in this) prediction, We expect to be under} ind in much Jess than 2,000 years, | or not. { ee This is also Smile week. Have} Jou taken your laughing gas today?| ag Year TOUGH BOIDS Judging from the quality of some of the birds that have been sent to) Us by friends, most of the fall shoot- ing has been at clay pigeons. { see We were out hunting yesterday | porcemnevess-» WEATHER northerly. FORECAST Tuesday, fair; nds, mostly The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor e Seattle Star oo at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congres March 9, 1879, Wntered ae Beoond Class Matter May Per Your, by Mall, $5 to $9 BY AGED Old Folks’ Day in} Fraternity, § Shower of Gold Drive Is a Big Success “It's never too late to mend” ts the old adage—and, if the “mending” ap- plies to lack of frugality, the truth of the saying was definitely estab- lished to the Seattle National bank Monday. “Monday was “Old Folks’ day” in The Star's Shower of Gold and the bank was thronged from early morning on with white- haired men and women who had become inneculated with the germ of thrift atter passing the Biblical allotment of three-score years and ten. Desens of nen and women past the age of 70 were there in quest of the $10 prize offered for the oldest depositor; there were several who were 80 or older, and a couple were past 90. ‘The two oldest depositors up to noon were Thomas Griffith, 804 Sum- mit ave. and W. B, Davis, 6509 10th ave. N. E. both of whom ere within temp than a decade of the century mark. Mrs. Mary A. Russell, 2623 W. S8th st. admitted haviug seen 75 summers pass, and N. M. Gladwin, 134 Roanoke st., is an even 80. Mra. Alice ©. Jackman, 2224 Mth ave. N. E, was the baby of the contest, of 50 cents on new savings ac- counts at the Seattle National, is growing in popularity by leaps and bounds, At the close of business Saturday 2,281 accounts had been opened—about five times as many as have been opened by the savings depart- ment every month—and bank of- ficials confidently expected to pass the 3,000 mark Monday. The Shower of Gold will continue until Saturday. Remember, tn ad- dition to getting a 100 per cent divi- dend {mmrediately on your initial tn- vestment, you get a Liberty Bell savings bank free of charge. BAD FIRE AT POSTOFFICE Approximately $1,500 worth of un- claimed mail and packages were de- stréyed in a stubborn fire that threatened for a time to consume © building at Third ave. Union st. Sunday night. Acting Fire Marshal Robert L. Laing, after a complete investiga. tion of the fire Monday, announced that no cause for the blaze had been found. controled with difficulty. ‘The destroyed packages had been on hand for several months. Despondent Man Drowns Children The conflagration was! | confined to the baiceny in the south east corner of the building and was! This Is Cc, Johnston, Who, With The Aid Of A Big | Expects } To Bring Every Child Dope Addict In This Community, And In Every Other Community In The Health. He Has Won The Complete Confidence Of Local Courts In His Reclaiming Program. Photo by [Price & Carter, Star State Photographers ‘Plans to Reclaim Children From Narcotics By E. P. Chalcraft One million men mobilized in a nation-wide fight against nar- cotles! In time, an international or- ganization for the suppression | of dopet | Thin is the vision of Seattle lodge ! | No. 92, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, which pledged itself) Monday to a fourfold program of reclaiming the youth of the land from the ravages of dope addiction. ‘The vision originally was that of }C. BE. Johnston, vice chairman of} ! | Smuggler Tricks Chinese “‘Cargo’’ and Several Die WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.— Govern-, was so far from civilization that sev. ment secret service men have de-|eral of the Chinese died of exposure cided that ‘America’s meanest man is) before they could make their way the captain of a booze smuggling | pack to food was boat that plies between Cuba and the] ing, Florida. coast : ols Not long ago he bargained to| According to reports, a num! smuggle some 200 Chinese into the} Um srtuggiers have turned to the United States for $200 a head, He| Chinese smuggling trade during the collected in advance. last few months because it is far more profitable. Ho loaded his “argo” at an out of the-way Cuban port, shoved off at) itundreds of Chinese are now tn | Cuba, waiting a favorable oppor nightfall, and at daybreak next day [tunity to sneak into the United e towns where sighted land. He sent his passengers ashore in small boats. with Harry Rhodes and flushed three| ROCHESTER, N T.. Oct. 9—De- mushrooms. |spondent, at his inability to obtain the local organization's Big Brother | find America a fine country. }committee, who has dedicated the . | Wheeler aged 27, last night drowned his three children in the bathtub and sent « bullet thru his own brain, The children were Ethiyn, Grace, 6, and Russell, 6 months. Wheeler's wife discovered the bod. jes on her return from church. Out hunting with a shotgun, Nary a bird we see, But driving in a flivver | We flush ‘em merrily. | We tramped from here to Sumas, Mary a quail saw we; | Driving from here to Bothelt We ren over twenty-three! ose “Let George Do It” seems to be the motto over in Europe. eee Now that the world series is over | fen’t it queer that practically every- Body knew all the time that the! Giants would win? eee WHAT SPORTING EDITORS LAUGH AT Inquisitive hombre asked Leo Z . Sports writer, if “Long dohn” Kelly fanned in the last ooo the world series. Kelly did!’ answered Jowsen. | ares, only funny thing sbout that Leo did not print it himself. oe With the baseball series ended, the | war has broken out afresh | 8 the front page. eee Speaking of the weries, there was $10 to be waia on both sides—and porting edy said | ° Pomragd fellow taxpayers. We 90 home and rock LAttle Homer, aon’ dr, to sleep—Af we can find | nn MARKS GO LOWER NEW YORK, Oct 4. ~Marks & new low |Sunday night steady work,, William E. 6 Driverless Auto Smashes Windows Running wild without a driver, a large roadster crashed thru two plate glass windows in the establishment of the Elite Tailors, 815 Pike st., The car was owned by A. C. Fonter, $15 Pike st. then | j remaining years of his life to juve nile welfare work. As a result of Johnston's efforts, which Included a thoro survey of the narcotic situation in Seattle, Se. jattle lodge No. 92 has adopted a |resolution pledging every member to: Lend active assistance to the au- thorities in suppressing the use of narcotics, particularly among the young. Encourage establishment of hos |pitals for addicts, thru both local and federal action. Put thru an edueational program to inform both young and old of the dangers of the narcotic habit, (Turn to Page 10, Column 3) The Seattle Star Thrift Coupon Worth 50 Cen ts; Cut It Out EB SEATTLE STAR haa arranged with the Sea’ ttle National Bank, Second ave. and Columbia 8t., to help every Star reader start @ bank o is coupe out the cou the Seattle inclusive, an account count om is worth 60 cents to you pon, Take it with 60 cents National Bank, October 4 to nd you Cut to 14, can open @ $1 savings Besides being credited with a $1 account, each deposit bank. A pi Sign your na or will be given a Liberty Bell jeture of the bank appears here, ame and address here; “Good luck to all of you," he! States. A uniform price of $200 is shouted as they palled away. “You'll| Charged to land them on American soll, preferably Florida. It is sald Dnc y ve, they are load: Powerful influences have been at | ‘hat once they arrive, they are low work in Washington to “et” thin| ®t inte motor buses and whisked . ‘ . Ss }away to various railroad centers, | captain for the dirty trick he did the Chinese tn cruising down the Cuban const during the night, and then landing them back on Cuban soil, all |the while making them believe it was the United States! Information in the hands of the U. S. secret service men is that the | Place in Cuba where he landed them ‘200 MEN FACING Hearing Starts in West Vir- ginia Killings WELLSBURG, W. Va., Oct. 9.— ‘Trial of 200 men charged with mur- der and inciting a riot at Cliftonville, July 17, when Sheriff H. H. Duvall nd seven union miners were slain, today Seventy-elght men are held with ‘out bond for first degree murder The indictments resulted from a |rlot when a small force of deputies, [headed by Sheriff Duvall, were at ltacked by hundreds of miners, who wero sald to have marched down |from a Pennsylvania mining camp. ‘The attacking party set fire to the mining property, shot Duvall thru | the head and killed seven mine work- Jers. It was learned today that several of the indicted men have turned state's evidence and have confessed to the march and mine attack in every detail, MURDER TRIAL | n In Brooke county circuit court” | where they are met by fellow coun |trymen and taken care of, The head of the Chinese smuggling trade is declared, by government agents to be a foreigner who is now \living lavishly in Washington. He jis under survellance. The present favorite route from China to the United States is first to Mexica, then Cuba and to Florida. Smile, Even If It Kills Be cheerful ff it kills you! Washington was compulsorily |] optimistic today, the first day of Smile Week. Grins will spread until next Saturday night when gloom can return, if ft will, and not incur the displeas: ure of the commonwealth. In accordance with a recent gubernatorial mandate, the en tire state of Washington, its cit jzens, its animals and its purl ing brooklets are in a state of pollyannishness. Mufflers are off all whistles, Slivery laughter greets the gold. en sunshine everywhere, Jokes which have not aired themselves for years are tottering about in every hamlet and counting house, One must laugh until it hurta, Governor Louts F’, Hart wore a smile a yard wide when he awoke to the fact that hie man- date goes into effect toduy. THWART LIQUOR Deputies Capture Alleged Booze Runners Before “Knockover” Ana result of a raid by Sheriff Matt Starwich at Des Moines during automobiles were seized six men | were held in the county jail Monday. Three of the meh are alleged liquor the latter three are believed to have thrown away when arrested, After waiting nearly all of Sun- day night near the dock at Des Moines, Deputy Sheriffs Frank Brewer, William Sears and Joe Hill saw a launch, running slowly with ber lights out, approach’ shore. On the dock two autos. The deputies watched the 25 cases of whisky being loaded into the cars and then rushed the bootleggers. were | | | | i { | | | Three gave their names as Jack Watson, 30, auto mechanic; W. H. Ellsworth, 28, seaman, and Harry Moore, 35, street car operator, A third car, which had been ob served running without lights, was stopped by Deputy Sears who arrest- ed the three occupants, all of whom were armed. They gave their names as Harry Cooper, 26, who is said to have © court record a@ a dope ad- dict; W. H, King, 32, and Harry J. Reed, 38, both of whom claim to be rafiroad employes. These three, according to the deputies, were waiting to hold up the liquer runners and seize their booze, They are declared by Sheriff Starwich to have knocked over another whisky cargo in the same vicinity a week ago. They are said to have obtained 25 cases of liquor at that time, Sheriff Starwich sald that he had been endeavoring to apprehend the party of six for several weeks, OFFICER SLAIN BY BOOTLEGER Another Wounded by Negro in B. C. Battle R, B.C, Sept, 9 | Fred Deal, a colored bootlegger, this |morning shot and killed Policeman |. J. MoReath and seriously wound- ed Detective Thomas Quirk. Deal was observed driving an au- tomobile on the wrong side of the street When Officer McBeath re |monstrated with him, Deal was so | manifectly intoxicated that the offi- cer decided to take him in, Detective Quirk assisted McBeath to take Deal to a patrol telephone. While McBeath was calling the po- lice station, Deal opened fite. Mo- | Beath was instantly killed, but Quirk with a bullet in his hand, fired back |at Deal, who ran into an alley. Deal lost his cap in the scuffle, getting out of the car, and half an hour later | he was arrested, still without his cap. A woman in the car with him is held as a material witness, Deal is VANCOUV wealthy, He was arraigned in court this morning and remanded for a week, Mciieath won the Victoria cross, Britain's highest war deoora- tion, for bravery in France, BIG OIL FIRE PERILS CITY LOS ANGELES, Oct, 9.—'Thick, greasy clouds of smoke obscured the sun here today, indicating that the fire which broke out at 545 a. m. in the Richfield Oil company, was {still burning. The fire for a time threatened the southeastern {ndustrial district of the city, but the combined efforts of all available fire companies prevent: ed it from spreading, Officials ‘e unable to account for the blaze except that several barrels of crude oll mysteriously ex- ploded and quickly spread the fire over the plant, which, with its equipment, is estimated at a value of $1,500,000, Burch Faces Third Trial for Murder LO8 ANGELE Oct, 9.—Arthur Cc, Burch went on trial today for the third time for the murder of John Belton Kennedy. “Out of the cell by Christmas ts my slogan,” said Burch today in an optimistic mood, His two previous trials and the two trials of Madalynne Obenchain, accused of the same crime, have re- sulted in disagreements of Juries, HOLDUP which 35 cases of liquor and three | runners and three are declared by Bheriff Starwich to be knock-over artists. Deputies are now at Des Moines searching for depu¥es’ badges | Girl’s Voice Reaches F in Treble Clef TACOMA 9 |] now another |] wer, thin voice in decle big music Louise Kiger, 13, of Mr Oct Comes Tacoma child sin girl, whose ed to reach the to the girl, Marte the daughter and Mrs. Charles Kiger, wings the last F note in the treble clef, This is several notes higher than that which young Robert Murray, another child marvel, sings Blessed with a wonderful bird throat. Mins Kiger ts adept at bird thrilling. Her appearace before the St. Ce. cilia club last week was one of her first public appear- ances Altho born in Moberley, Mo., Mine Kiger hag lived in Taco- ma much of her life. It was when she was 10, and without training, that Prof. Weisbach, piano instructor, hear her sing “Lo, Hear the Gentle Lark The remarkable quality of her volce so impressed him, Prof. Weisbach advised train- ing for opera under the direc. tion of T. H. J. Ryan. Since then she has been carefully coached in private in prepara. tion for what Mies Kiger and her proud parents hope will be a career in opera. TURKS BREAK TRUCE PACT! ‘Kemalist Legions | on March Again in Neutral Zone time a | | within a few days’ march of the clty, according to word received here from Constantinople. eee BY EDWARD J. BING MUDANIA, Oct. 9—Kemalist legions were within a day's | march of Constantinople as al- lied generals met with Ismet Pasha in a renewed effort to un- tangle the Near Eastern problem today. In spite of the promise of Is- met, Turkish nationalist repre- sentative, to cease the concentra- tion of troops in the neutral areas, the Kemalists surged into forbidden area, Turkish cavalry has reached Shile and Yarmiso, both places within a day's march of Constantinople. The cavairy is also nearing Kara- yakobi, which is in the same area. The concentration in the neutral zone on the west of the Sea of Mar. mora, in the vicinity of Chanak, is also continuing. In this area infan- try has replaced cavalry, which is taken to mean that the Turks in- |tend to dig in to hold their posi- | dens, The latest allied plan of peace, which includes the immediate with- drawal of the Greeks from Thrace and the occupation of that territory by the allies for a period of one month, after which a Turkish ¢lvil jadministration may be set up, was | presented to Ismet by the military [representatives of Great Britain, | France and Italy. The situation was somewhat re- lieved when the Greek cabinet in- | inform the allies that the govern. jment would order its nationals out jof Thrace. The Greeks, however, jask for two months instead of one to evacuate, eee LLOYD GEORGE RULE SLIPS? BY LLOYD ALLEN LONDON, Get. ¥.— Possibility of the overthrow of the Lioyd George government next month when par. Hament convenes was discussed to- day by opponents of the prime min- ister. Liberal and conservative anti- Georgians saw an advantage tn re- (Turn to Page 10, Column 3) FOR ACTIVE “WANT AD” RETURNS CALL MAIN 0600 {nt 6 opm, structed the Greek representative to | Il MURDER ARRESTS i STARTLE Youth Is Accused by Pal as Killer of Minister and Woman on Farm | BY GERALD OVERTON NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J, Oct. %—Crouching in terror of a crowd that surged about the courthouse here, Clifford Hayes, | 19, ex-sailor, was taken to Som- | erville jail this afternoon to be formally charged with the mur- der of Rev. Edward Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills. Hayes’ arrest was a surprise in the sensational murder case. It fob lowed Gov. Edwards’ ultimatum that the slayer of the couple must |found. Hayes and a com | named Raymond Schneider, 22, were | grilled all night, and upon the late | ter’s confession that Hayes shot Dr, | Hall and Mrs. Mills by mistake, the | ex-gob was placed under arrest. | Scraps of Schnelder’s alleged come fession that have reached the pub- lic, however, leave much to be ex+ plained concerning the death of the couple. The prosecutors were reticent con- cerning the exact nature of Schneid- er’s statement, on the strength of which Hayes was arrested. : however, deciared he had sald it o the statement. He the. assertion Heit lover. Schneider ered their mi ment said. Who made a lunge at his former | Hayes was held while Schneider Te | cited his tale of mistaken . all a pack of lies.” The statement issued Beekman and Strickler said: sf “Upon information in possession of the prosecutor's office, obtained from Raymond Schneider and other witnesses, we feel obliged to prefer \a charge of murder against one Clif. ford Hayes. “Schneider will be held as a mae terial witness, awaiting further devel opments In the case. A process will be issued in Somerset county today, where it @ppears the crime was com- mitted. Both men will be detained }in the Somerset county Jail.” The prosecutors refused to say whether they had eliminated the Mills and Hall families from the case. “We cannot eliminate anyone yet,* Beekman said. Schneider, tn his statement, ac cording to his report, declared that Hayes was jealous of Pearl Babe mer, 15-year-old daughter of @ salgon keeper. While walking with Schneider the night of September” 14, the night of the murder, he saw, Pearl with a man who appeared to be in« toxicated, (Turn to Page 10, Column 4) SOLD TOO MUCH FUEL; IS FINED Henry Heckman | Pays $5 for Being Too Liberal Henry Heckman, head of the Heck- man Fuel Co., one of the seven fuel dealers arrested last. week charged with selling too much wood, . waa fined $5 in police court Monday upon conviction. Inspector J. D. Crimmons, of the weights and measures bureau, ap. peared as prosecuting witness. Heck- man pleaded not guilty to violatin the city ordinance regulating the size of wagon boxes to 84 cubic feet, and {made a bitter fight, but was found guilty and fined by Acting Pollee Judge Jacob Kalina, An imposing array of attorneys aps peared for the six other fuel deab ers, whose cases were continued te Nov. 16, upon petitions filed by their counsel. Heckman appeared as his own attorney, All of the seven pleaded not guilty. Inspector Crimmons announced that heavy fines would not be ime posed upon the dealers if they are convicted, as the purpose of the prosecution ts only to enforce a re- wurn to the legal standard of loads. oi | Hayes interrupted frequently: “Ite The two young men followed the rs @ An attache of the prosecutor's of- _